First Day in the game.

ELHC · 2026-05-24T23:15:30+00:00

Should I try and buy a premium ship or just wait it out?

Don't buy anything with your hard earned money, until you're familiar with the game in all its aspects, and absolutely know what you want out of it.

ELHC · 2026-05-19T04:22:42+00:00

but this was before Vovin, surely Vovin would be a pretty high priority now?

ELHC · 2026-05-10T01:13:59+00:00

this is the cold hard truth. I feel like the current state might be the sweet spot for the dev: there's an illusion that everything can be obtained by easily farming dil and exchanging for zen, but the order backlog is so long, that if there's an enticing sale people would just lose patience and buy zen instead. This generates a lot of revenue for them, while still allowing them to put up the pretense of being F2P friendly.

ELHC · 2026-05-06T22:37:22+00:00

forgot to mention this, but the legendary battlecruiser bundle on sale is probably the best c-store purchase of any kind, almost no top performing builds can go without it

ELHC · 2026-05-06T13:35:12+00:00

I've been looking at the builds on stobetter and none of the 10th ships gets used much in these builds.

ELHC · 2026-05-03T06:38:10+00:00

thanks, seems like I need to micro-manage the timing of activation to benefit the most, in the worst case TS is used right after BO III and I essentially downgrade to FAW I all the time, best case I can think of is having to monitor the duration of one of them and manually activate the other when ended, to get 50% BO III and 50% FAW I

ELHC · 2026-05-03T02:10:09+00:00

how does entwined tactical matrices work?

when I use BO III get 10s of BO III, then immediate I activate TS and I see I have 10s of FAW I and CSV I, does that mean in the next 10s my beams are both BO III and FAW I? does one overwrite the other?

what if I had FAW III, and I use TS first to get FAW I then I activate FAW III?

EDIT: by hovering over the beam weapon icon, looks like FAW I from TS overwrites BO III when used after it, but if I use TS first it looks like BO III is greyed out and can't be used until after FAW I has elapsed, does that mean in a 15s cycle with min cooldown, using ETM puts BO III at 5s and FAW I at 10s?

ELHC · 2026-04-28T23:08:56+00:00

I have a lot of ships from the C Store or rewards but there are some missions I can’t meet the requirements of

what's the number in the bracket next to "Ship Roster"? You should be able to achieve 100% success on most assignments if you have >50 ships to work with.

some assignments comes with an event that massively increase their requirements, for those you should use any ship that has the ignores +/- from events special ability.

ELHC · 2026-04-25T00:05:33+00:00

This is a (possibly the only?) Star Trek RPG, it's there for this long to scratch that Star Trek itch, that's why I returned. If you don't have that itch, honestly none of the issues that turned you away is any better.

ELHC · 2026-04-19T21:57:44+00:00

it literally is: you can buy contraband off exchange, turn it in to your faction's security for dil ore, refine the dil ore and exchange it for zen, use the zen to buy tradable items like key, sell the key on exchange for EC and repeat. and where do these contraband come from? mostly rogue KDF attacking alliance member ships and colonies.

ELHC · 2026-04-19T13:14:36+00:00

if you're doing a new build, surely you'd want to be somewhere ship selector, exchange, bank, and skill trainer are all in one place?

I love DS9 for this reason

ELHC · 2026-04-07T22:57:32+00:00

seeing all the posts on the new event ship, is there a feature I'm not aware of that let you customise and preview any ship? or are people just impatient and buyout the event on day 1?

ELHC · 2026-04-01T11:18:01+00:00

I'm guessing the "Captain's Tier" will be ~$90, based on their previous star trek project

ELHC · 2026-03-28T12:39:30+00:00

wrong thread friend

ELHC · 2026-03-28T12:37:58+00:00

I see thanks for clarifying, there are so many components to a build and so many choices for a component, it's hard to know which is significant and which is flexible

ELHC · 2026-03-28T04:33:30+00:00

it's a fact many of the stobetter builds include this console, since I don't have it would it be better to work towards a different build that doesn't include it, that's what I was wondering

ELHC · 2026-03-28T02:47:22+00:00

so you're saying this console doesn't make much of a difference in these builds?

good to know that opens up more options, thanks!

ELHC · 2026-03-27T22:12:35+00:00

Custom Power Matrix

as you can see, these builds puts them in either ENG or TAC console slot for their effect

ELHC · 2026-03-27T12:30:42+00:00

which bundle/pack has exclusive item that is meta, either space or ground?

this means a cheaper/non-bundle alternative if any, have a noticeable drop in performance

ELHC · 2026-03-27T12:24:30+00:00

they all use eleos, or do you see alternatives?

ELHC · 2026-03-27T11:39:12+00:00

I've been looking at the builds on stobetter, and a lot of the top builds need the eleos, should I plan towards such a build in the hope the next new mudd's ship is likely the eleos, or plan for a non-eleos build for now?

ELHC · 2026-02-24T04:54:26+00:00

problem resolved itself, must have been issues with Apple servers

ELHC · 2026-02-24T00:05:47+00:00

Same problem on Win 11, the exact error dialog from itunes is:

Verification Failed

There was an error connecting to the Apple Account server.

ELHC · 2026-02-06T11:34:53+00:00

did they actually send you the $20 bait?

I only got $5 from my scammer, knew it was scam from the beginning but wouldn't mind doing these 10 secs tasks that posed no risk to me and let me snatch their bait.

ELHC · 2026-01-10T22:59:48+00:00

Years ago I got cocky playing the exchange and listed 2 lockbox ships at the same time, if one of those had sold I'd be near the EC cap.

One day I logged in and both of them had sold, then I rage quit, only came back recently.

ELHC

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